I'll tell you what almost ALWAYS works for me... Tell them you want them
(whatever document or information you want) under the 1996 Federal Freedom
of Information Act... rather than run the risk of going up against some
federal agency, they usually give me the informaiton I want.
IF you want to know more about the FIA go to...
http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foia_updates/Vol_XVII_4/page2.htm
Tom
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Currently with more 20 separate databases on line and adding more every
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NOW with over 25,000 hits since Nov. 1997
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Researching the following Major Surnames w/variations:
Baumann~BRATT~CHUDERSKI~Curvelier~deGroot~delaVigne~duTrieux~DUMBROWSKI~Gane
svoort~GARRARD/JARRETT~deGraaf~GROESBECK~Hathaway~Higgins~HUYCK~Hunter~KENT~
LANGDON~LEICHT/LIGHT~LYCON/LYKINS~McLANE~Milles~Montross~Mookers~Noirett~PAS
ZKIEWICZ~Peek~PERRIN~Post~ROSE~SAGER/SEGERS~SCHUYLER~Simons~Thysens~vanANTWE
RP~vanBRACKELL~vanVALKENBURG~VERPLANCK~Viele~WILTZEE/WILLSEY~ZGL`Obicka~Zich
uski.
If it has all CAPS it is a very important line to my research.
-----Original Message-----
From: DBGOMANDONATA(a)aol.com [mailto:DBGOMANDONATA@aol.com]
Sent: April 20, 2001 2:52 PM
To: INDELAWA-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INDELAWA-L] Delaware County School Records
That does not surprise me (this was the Muncie City schools wasn't it).
You know I had the same problem when I went to the City School system to get
a copy of my dad's records. This is my story on this issue. My father has
been dead since I was 7 years old. (I'am now 35.) I had his death
certificate, obituary, everything to prove he was deceased. The ding dong at
the office said well "YOUR FATHER WILL HAVE TO SIGN A WAIVER" note I had
already told her in person that he was DEAD. She said it did not matter he
still had to sign one. I FINALLY SAID HOW THE HECK CAN HE SIGN IT IF HE'S
DEAD! (No brainier here.) I finally took my Mom back in with me. We only
got
them by luck due to the fact I was having such a fit on this lady that her
boss came out with another lady. And wanted to know the problem. I proceeded
with this again. Then the lady standing there with the boss (not the ding
dong who wanted my deceased father to rise from the grave and sign this
paper) but the other one JUST SO HAPPENED TO OF BEEN LONG TIME FRIENDS OF MY
MOM AND DAD's and she recognized us. So she told them it was okay he was
deceased and they reluctantly went ahead and gave them to me.
The whole reason for wanting my dad's school records was that my dad was one
of 11 children and everyone kept telling me my son looked like my dad at
around the age of 4-7. I said well what did my dad look like does anyone
have
pictures? I went through the whole family looking for pictures. Knowbody had
any (later found out they did but did not want to come off of them). But, at
any rate I knew my Mom had school pictures from that same time frame so I
figured there had to of been pictures of my dad to. So I decided to find his
school records and see if a picture was attached to the school records. I
went to the different school systems (one was in Henry County Schools) ,
(one
was in the Delaware COUNTY school system) and some were in the Delaware CITY
school systems. Nobody batted an eye about giving them to me except the CITY
school system in Muncie.
I can understand for privacy reasons but, why on earth if you have all the
documentation to prove they are DECEASED would they put you through this. I
don't know. My advice to you on this issue is GO OVER THE HEAD OF THE
PERSON
YOU TALKED TO. What actual school are you trying to get records for?
Don't give up! Good Luck!
Donata
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